International Occultation Timing Association

European Section 

Missing Lunar Grazing Occultations of the Last 35 Years

Dave Herald and Dave Gault (Australia) have started to complete the list of lunar grazing occultations of the past. A list has been compiled, which has more than 200 entries of the years 1974 to 2003. There are also a few grazing observations from Europe missing. Everybody, who has any information or is able to present the results of these reported grazing expeditions, should immediately contact either myself (info@iota-es.de) or Dave Herald or Dave Gault.

Here you find the letter from Dave Gault about these missing reports:

Dear All,

It has come to my attention that many graze observation reports dating from the 1970s have not made it into the archive of observations.   I have compiled a list by way of using the Occultation Newsletter (ON) Summary of Grazes as a cross reference to the records in the archive.

Sadly, for the period 1974 to 1985 (the period reviewed so far) I have identified 210 graze reports missing.  That means individual reports from 722 stations and 2983 events missing from our archive.   I fear that the list will grow as we continue to work through the archive.     It also means that pre 1974 there is no method of cross reference that I know of but I'm sure there must be missing reports from that era as well.

Regards
DaveGault

Here you find the list of those events, which were observed from Europe:

YYYY MMDD    Star  Mag Location            Organizer              #of       in
                                                           stations timings archive
1975 0222     995  4.1 Nessa, D.D.R.       Dietmar Boehme        1    2     No
1975 0222     995  4.1 Hannover, D.B.R.    Klaus Frick           1    4     No
1976 0113 Z03748   7.2 Tomsk, Siberia      A. Morosov            1    4     No
1977 0129     663  6.9 Laarne, Belgium     Willy Verhaegen       4    3     No
1977 0131     934  6.4 Flavion, Belgium    Jean Bourgeois        4    4     No
1977 0922    2969  3.2 NovySanzhary,Ukr    V.M. Kirpatovskii     3    3     No
1977 0922    2969  3.2 Kozelshchina,Ukr    A. K. Osipov          1    2     No
1977 1031     944  5.9 Sleidinge,Belgm.    Willy Verhaegen      14   31     No
1978 0513    1281  6.4 Lugano,Switzerld    Alge Edi              1    4     No
1980 0321     692  1.1 Sosnovka, Russia    Alexander, Osipov     5   18     No
1980 0321     692  1.1 Tol., Belorussia    V. A. Golubev         2    5     No
1980 0617    1466  5.2 Cambrils, Spain     Carlos Schnabel       2    5     No
1980 0903   94957  8.5 Granollers,Spain    Domenec Barbany       2    2     No
1983 0717    2033  4.3 S.F.Saserra,Spn.    Carles Schnabel       3   12     No
1984 0114    1973  6.5 SVenFagnes,Belgm    Jean Bourgeois        1    9     No

The complete list can be find here
Please help us, to complete the observation reports!

W. Beisker

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